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analyses into one single annotated game. When you do so there are certain
conventions you should stick to:
Define one game as the parent game. It's commentator is regarded as the main
commentator and his name will appear in the games list.
When you merge the analysis of another commentator (by simply dragging the
entire game into the first one) you should manually type in the name of its author the
first time there is a deviation from the parent game's analysis. The name is entered as
text commentary in the game. All other commentators should be listed in the same
way, as text the first time their commentary appears.
Reordering the merged variations
You can create very large openings repertoires by merging games and variations.
Normally the variations will be inserted in the order in which they were encountered.
There is a function with which you can considerably improve the structure of the
variations.
Click Insert – Variations – Reorder variations. The variations will be reorganized on
the basis of chess criteria. The most important continuations become the main
variations, i.e. all lines that have a large number of subvariations will be promoted at
all levels to main variations.
3.1.20 Tipp Merging Games
A user would like to insert comments and variations and then merge multiple games to
get an overall variation tree, but unfortunately, the initial moves have been played in
many different orders to allow for uniformity.
How can you avoid unwanted variations being shown in the tree when merging games?
You have to return to the initial starting position (i.e. the very start of the game) and
input the desired move order as a variation. You can then go to the start of the
variation, and select “Replace moves” from the “Insert” -> “Variations” menu.
3.1.21 Replace game
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Replace game works exactly like Save game – with one important difference. The game
is not added to the end of the database but reinserted in its original place. You will
want to use this when you change or annotate a game and then want to store it in
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